by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
I created the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame as a way of giving special attention to government employees who go above and beyond the call of duty in their efforts to get paid way too much in exchange for doing far too little. While my standard practice is to bestow this...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | May 5, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Daily Caller on May 5, 2015. Among the vast multitude of federal government programs, a rare few have as their mission the protection of the general taxpayer interest. Those that do are typically beset by special interests and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute looks at the topic of infrastructure spending and I’m left with mixed feelings. Some of what he writes is very good. Yes, the claims of an “infrastructure crisis” by President Obama, many liberals…are exaggerated....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
Since I primarily work on fiscal policy, I normally look at the budgetary impact of entitlement programs. And the numbers are very grim. But I’m also an economist, so I periodically comment on how government intervention undermines the efficient functioning of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Which nation has the most costly bureaucracy? Well, if the answer is based solely on how much it costs to employ bureaucrats, you can see from this chart that Denmark comes in first place. As an American taxpayer, I’m glad to learn that there are other nations that...
